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The right knee is the primary issue - it's probably why he can't do aerobic work either other than maybe swimming. One the rare occasions last season when he could drive off it, he could still hit some. The rest of the time he's hitting purely from the waist up.

Of course if a guy is not a great blocker, he has less credibility to burn to start out as a blocker and then slip into a pattern uncovered.

LOL - actually LG, you are completely right, I meant to quote RedR's post there and accidentally got yours instead. It was his speculation that maybe the other guys looked better because they weren't being paid attention to, which conversely means that if true teams were 'paying attention to' i.e. doing some kind of scheming for Hock

IDK, Zadina and Veleno both appear to be pretty much lost causes. Zadina seems a little more of a presence on the ice, but he is an even worse finisher than Veleno, if that's even possible.

you are assuming Hock was good enough that other teams schemed against him. I could be persuaded of that but I would want to see some evidence.

It depends on how the team does - I see 3 outcomes: If some of these lottery tickets hit and they are competitive, and he ends up at 500 OPS again, he's going to need to take a 60day DL and give the team a chance to do something. If, as is more likely, the team is non-competitive, then if he gets 250-300 poor AB it won't be the end of the world. And of course even more remotely possible than the 1st outcome is that he stays healthy, in which case he could possibly be productive playing around half-time.

yeah. A cabinet maker today would kill to have access to all the mahogany burl that went into 40's and 50' console radios and televisions.

The discussion about TEs is running a lot like the discussion of QBs. Yes, there are TE's out there that are the kinds of difference makers that justify a high pick, but they are rare and it's almost unknowable if a guy in the draft will be one of them. Hockensen had about as much buzz as any TE coming out and he has still ended far short of being a Winslow or Kelce. And sure, at some point another QB is going to come out who is as good a pro as Mahomes, but this year it's a pure crapshoot that Young or Stroud is that guy, just by the numbers neither likely is.

LOL - agreed. And I don't think Hockenson turned out be anything special either.

Bill Russell for 3

This. I know they still get away selling obstructed view seats at Fenway, but at this point that is a weird exception to a general rule that people are not going to pay good money to still behind poles and close to half the seats at TS were behind the poles. The good seats at TS were the best anywhere, but there weren't enough of them.

you can hear the ball off his bat has a different sound. .... well, sorta muzak'ish actually...

What's this 20 50 and 62 stuff? Young whippershnappers! I have to laugh also - because my dad, who was a big electronic gadget guy, was still too cheap to ever spend much on a television, so my formative memories are 2,4,7,9 on an already ancient B&W RCA with a turner whose knob you had to jiggle all the time to hold a signal, and 56 at school - where we had some rooms wired to a central UHF antenna/RFamp system. Of course since you can find anything on the net - this would be about the exact model!

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You can already see the difference in how this year's light, trimmer Schoop goes to his right!

I don't know what value level SY puts on making the playoffs this season and/or how much he is willing to sacrifice whatever trade value he'd be giving up in a pending UFA to be all in to do it, but I am more confident that a 5 game stretch is not what changes his mind about the situation one way or the other.

I saw a tweet yesterday from one of the OSINT types that wondered about a high level of airborn NATO recon activity he had observed over Poland up to the Ukraine border. Guess now he knows why.

meanwhile you hear that Pootin is traveling around in a tank for protection.

On 'JR they would always say "broadcasting from the golden tower of the Fisher Bldg", but those were the studios, AM is generally too long a wave to broadcast from a dipole on top of a bldg. At that freq you normally have some kind of array strung out across a large area. IIRC WJR's transmitter was(is?) in one of the downriver 'burbs.

Oddly enough - if Hinch only played him twice a week there might be a chance for him to stay productive enough for it not to be so painful to watch. If you decide to cap him at 200AB going in you have a shot a 200 decent AB. Let him start playing consecutive days you are sure to get last year over again.

it's very likely going to look just like last year. He'll hit for a little average, maybe a couple of HRs, then at some point, probably still relatively early in the season, the knee will reach its limit of use, any remaining power will go, and his OPS will crater though he might still manage a 300 OB

LOL - the solution to the Cabrera 'problem' is for Kerry Carpenter to hit....

Just keep in mind that we only have one hack's word for what another hack thinks about that, not SY's.

Doesn't help that what started out as a 'day to day' with Raymond has turned into worse.

I suppose it was in the interests of Ukraine and its supporters to portray the future at defcon 2 terms at least up through the Munich conference.